# Du contrat social’s civil-religion chapter prints death or exile for those who will not subscribe Date: 1762 ## The fact Book IV of the 1762 contract treatise prints a civil profession of faith and allows the sovereign to banish or, for perjury against it, to kill. It is not a later Concordat. ## Context Civil religion can glue a city and can police conscience. Split cohesion uses. [Jean-Jacques Rousseau](/people/jean-jacques-rousseau) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute. ## Evidence and sources Official library, encyclopedia, or public-domain edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument. Official or archival record: The Social Contract — Cole translation, public-domain English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46333; Project Gutenberg). ## Significance A printed death-or-exile clause for civil-faith perjury is a rights harm, not a hymn. A printed death-or-exile clause for civil-faith perjury is a rights harm, not a hymn. ## What is established and what is not Established as a dated public record of this instrument. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. ## People - Jean-Jacques Rousseau: https://factrail.ai/people/jean-jacques-rousseau ## Drivers - Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights ## Sources - https://iep.utm.edu/rousseau/ - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46333 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-civil-religion-intolerance